How Planned Parenthood's Services Saved One 24-Year-Old's Life

When she was 24 years old, Christy's first Pap smear at Planned Parenthood came back irregular — soon after, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. "Without a resource like Planned Parenthood, I probably wouldn't be alive," she says in this video, powered by Storyvine. "I wouldn't have known about my cancer, until it was too late. They caught it early. And the way it advanced after we knew about it, proves to me that I was so very lucky."

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